Scottish History

Knoydart - the northern edge of the 'Rough Bounds' is one of the most evocative names...

As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a...

On 13 October 1939, HMS Royal Oak, one of the British navy’s top battleships, was...

This island of Lismore boasts a remarkably rich heritage, both in terms of historic...

The Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotland's past but they were...

Written by a man who has gone on to become both an award-winning historian of the...

The Clearances are well known as one of the darkest periods of Highland history. Over a...

This is the story of a Scottish island as it has never been told before. While many...

For much of its history, Orkney had its own language, culture and institutions. The...

"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other...

The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the...

These are the memoirs of a teacher from England who became headmaster of Garrynemonie...